Whisky weekend
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In a blind taste test, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between it and your favorite. It's all marketing.
You guys are too eclectic with your bourbons/whiskeys.
I am good with any of the following standards:
Jim Beam Black
Gentleman Jack
Makers Mark
Four Roses
I am good with any of the following standards:
Jim Beam Black
Gentleman Jack
Makers Mark
Four Roses
17 off rookie/puss*
I'm a Makers fan and some Four Roses. Jack Daniels is charcoal water. Beam is the basic like Elijah.
You would be incorrect
Just for funsies are you going to be in the junction for any game this year? If so, let's do a blind taste test.
My former neighbor (RIP) considered himself a bourbon connoisseur and even he understood you can't tell most apart. He organized a blind taste test during a neighborhood party for the (6 or 7) men who had a favorite brand. Guess what? Picking their favorite out of four they were less than 50% accurate.
Tell us your poor without telling us your poor.
On a related note, I’ve done the same for friends but with light lager beers usually Miller, bud, coors light. I’ve done it dozens of times. So far 0% have been able to pick their brand much less tell the difference.
...yep...and add Evan Williams Black for bourbon and for a whiskey Johnny Walker Red. I gave up hard liquor long time ago but still pick a bottle up just to look at it
Well they probably suck.
Now if you line up 4 similar bourbons that use a similar mash bill(let's say 4 versions of Maker's) it could get tough.
But if you don't think you can line up a Blanton's, Weller, Stagg Jr, and Sazerac (all from Buffalo Trace) and a dozen or more of us in this board can't bat .1000 on picking out which is which, you would lose a lot of money. I know @Raiderdawg, myself, @NTDawg and a few others will take that bet.
That said if you're point is expensive doesn't mean better, I concur. I have done a personal blind tasting between Eagle Rare 10 year, Buffalo Trace, Benchmark, and Benchmark bonded. They are all the same juice going in the barrel and are just aged different times, in different rickhouses, and are cut with more or less water.
Results
Benchmark Bonded #1 - $17.95
Eagle Rare 10 year #2 - $35.95
Buffalo Trace #3 - $25.95
Haitian refugee porta potty water #4
Benchmark a distant #5 - $14.95
Turns out I prefer the higher proof of the bonded even at only 4 years of age vs a lower proof 6-8 year old BT or even 10 year old ER. The regular benchmark is 80 proof and approximately 18 months old. It tastes like fermented Cheerios. I prolly drink 5-1 Benchmark Bonded over everything else these days.
All that said, best sip I have ever had was a neat glass of King of Kentucky that will sell for $2k plus by the bottle usually.
I'm so poor, I call it po' (can't afford the o and r).
Agree, Angel’s envy is great, but calling it cheap seems like a cover for some other deficiency
I’ll drink and enjoy all of the ones you listed and they all do the same thing.
We did that in the Junction several years ago, most folks couldn't pick "their" beer out of four.
Wrong. I cant tell everything but I would never ever pick Gentlemen Jack in a blind, trash. I do love JD SiB barrel proof, JD SiB BP rye and the JD 10 and 12 year old but they are in a different class from their bottom shelf stuff. When you say Makers and Four Roses, I assume you are talking about there bottom self options. They are fine but you would be wrong. I recently bought a Maker Heart Release and it is good but it is also off profile for Makers. Four Roses has a wide variety of products from “yellow label” to their Limited Editions. I’ve never been lucky enough to get a LE but I have several single barrel barrel proof bottles and they are some of my favorites. I love their small batch select. It is one the best shelf available bourbons on the market.
This week I was lucky and found a Sagamore 9 year and a Remus Repeal VIII. I’ve have already cracked open the Sagamore and it is very good.
Don’t do bourbon. But. Four Roses is as smooth as I’ve ever had. Boo me all you want. Closest thing to a bourbon being like a single malt I’ve found.
Balvine man myself(among many others ). Partial to 17 Doublewood and 21 Portwood
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Balvine man myself(among many others ). Partial to 17 Doublewood and 21 Portwood
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I would volunteer to be a blindfolded taste tester.
I fully agree that most lite beers taste the same, as do most ipas, etc.
I'm sure I can tell a nice Angel's envy (not cheap) from evan Williams. But yeah you may get me on Elijah craig vs makers vs 4roses. I'd still try.
I'm sure I can tell a nice Angel's envy (not cheap) from evan Williams. But yeah you may get me on Elijah craig vs makers vs 4roses. I'd still try.
The wife was in Lexington this week for work, and went to the Buffalo trace distillery and got me a bottle of E.H. Taylor small batch. Looking forward to trying it soon. Was hoping for their single barrel, but apparently they do their special releases different each day of the week, you don't know what it's going to be, can only buy 1 bottle, and can't buy again for 30 days.
EHT is my favorite pour. If you can find the single barrel, jump on it.
I've got a bottle of the Barrel Proof I found in an obscure liquor store a few years back. Honestly can't pop it because of what it's supposedly worth on the darker markets.
Some of you are classless lightweights or Liteweights. If you can't distinguish your drinks, why are you buying what you drink? Just buy the cheapest "bourbon" made in like Michigan and you'll figure it out fast. Try a Beast Light and you'll quickly figure out it's not Miller Lite or Bud Light, or that low carb puzzie beer stuff. When my smell got screwed up for about a year by covid, it was misery drinking new bourbon because I couldn't get the full flavor.
Without being needlessly rude, or arrogant, I think there are plenty of folks on here that could pick out various bourbons from others made by different producers with different mashbills.
But there are also lots of status drinkers who have no idea what they're talking about and do it all for how they think it makes them look to others. More of them in Mississippi favor powder blue uniforms, but not a small number like a particularly suckass team in Mississippi this year.
One thing that's good about knowing bourbon is that you have a large selection of really nice bourbons to choose from in the truly inexpensive category because the status drinkers don't want them.
Lol, glad you felt it was better than most of the 80 proof pisswater rampant hereabouts.
It's expensive but not crazy like some of there other limited products. I paid $100 for a pour of the 18 Year Old Marriage. I've heard of the "tornado survivor" bottles going for $5K+.
You should use it as a special pour bottle for occasions when friends who would appreciate it are in town. It's "only" going for $350-$400 online, not $3-4000.
I have a bottle and it's much better than single or small batch. Closest thing I have to a Stagg Jr, or now Stagg I guess, which is my favorite pour from Buffalo Trace.
Save it for special occasions, but definitely drink it. You'll appreciate and so will your friends... If you don't have friends that will appreciate, I am sure you can make some new ones who will on SPS board.**
Everyone in Alabama: don't forget that registration for the annual limited release drawing has started.
It does. Also has to be at least 4 years old.
Eagle Rare is 90 proof and 10 years old.
Buffalo Trace is 90 proof and 6-8 years old (estimated by experts.)
The regular Benchmark is 80 proof and 18-24 months old (estimated.)
The Bonded Benchmark is 100 proof and at least 4 years old.
They all come out of the barrel at a much higher proof and are "cut" with water to get to a steady proof. For me, the lower cutting of the younger Bonded gives a better flavor.
In fact, the Benchmark Bonded is really not far off from EH Taylor in my opinion. Taylor Small batch is the same mash bill going in as all the others, but bonded (cut to 100 proof). It's just 3-4 years older than the Benchmark Bonded.
All of the other benchmarks are very young and not very good IMO.
Alabama liquor prices are absurd. They just went up 8% at the ABC where I live. Moving to Florida on Monday and I did the math. I will save $150 on whisky a month.Everyone in Alabama: don't forget that registration for the annual limited release drawing has started.
They are, but the limited release program is a great opportunity to get rare stuff. Much lower prices than the secondary market. If you win the drawing.
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